… *Why* does Hannibal even *have* a linoleum knife????
(Is he toolbelt n diy'ing it in his free time or what?)
It’s bc it looks phallic.
It’s meant to be symbolic, as is the fact that Hannibal stabbed him in the belly.
More prosaically, he also used that type of knife in the novel.
He stole it from Wills house.
It was a sexy knife and honestly more attractively linked to Will than something like one of his shirts wouldve been, especially since will wouldnt have more than a few shirts at a time and would miss it.
On the other hand, will isnt likely to have any linoleum based projects anywhere soon. It was probably gathering dust and needed a little care
Hannibal was quite please with himself, polishing the knife, sharpening it, taking it out occasionally to admire. Its a workmans tool, it has a clear purpose, vicious without the instant fear something like a jack knife
He had hoped to give it back to Will on their first kill together, but instead decided to give it back to him… in a more petulant way
It’s hooked, y'all. Sharp blade on the inside of a curve.
Like this gutting knife:
Always use the right tool for your intended purpose.
On a less glib note, the design of this style of knife - blade on the inside of a curve, no blade on the outside of the curve, is used for gutting and dressing animals specifically so as not to nick or damage the intestines. In other words, it’s a tool purpose built for opening an animal up without damaging any of their insides. In other words, like Abighost said, he knew exactly how to cut and he wanted Will to live.
So what you’re saying is, once he realized Will had betrayed him, he planned out exactly how he was going to cut him and went out and bought a knife specifically for that purpose.
Yeah. Yeah, I’ll buy that.
@nephilia-main-blog re the colostomy bag - detailed medical stuff below for those who don’t want to read it.
I’m a veterinarian, not a human medic, but mammals are mammals. If you don’t eat, you don’t poop, so fecal mess isn’t a worry in unconscious patients beyond about the first twelve hours after admission (urine still is though. That big black box of Freddie’s would have been hiding a urinary catheter too).
Laparascopic surgery still isn’t common in animals, so we make very large surgical incisions in the abdomens of dogs and cats every day, and they have no trouble pooping afterwards. We do make the incision the other way, between the muscle fibres, not across them, because it heals faster that way, but traumatic abdominal injuries aren’t always so thoughtful and those animals don’t need colostomy bags either. The only reason I can imagine Will had one is because his large intestine needed repairing. The large intestine is more delicate than the small because it’s much thinner walled, and surgical wounds in it have a significantly higher risk of complications and breakdown than small intestinal wounds. You can do just about anything with the small intestine and have a fully functional gut the day after surgery.
